wobblygob Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Scargill is an agent recruited 50 years ago and mandated to infiltrate and destroy the NUM. There were similar agents in the dock workers and print unions. If only we had folk like them in MI5. I don't normally go for conspiracy theories but there seems to be a lot of truth in that. Back in the 1970s the UK's manufacturing industries were uncompetitive due to overstaffing and bullying unions who would strike for the most trivial of reasons. What better way to smash the unions than getting agents to infiltrate and destroy them from within? And it's still going on today! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2005962/Bob-Crow-Proof-hes-railway-sleeper.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mj.scuba Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 But it is rather interesting that a past figurehead of trade unionism is more interested in his pound of flesh than the future of the union he once ran. I'm sort of struggling with the figures here. Union has 1695 members Scargills pension is £60,000 Car allowance £12,000 Rent on ONE OF his flats in London £32,000 Contributionto Labour Party £50,000 How does the union pay the actual staff who do the work or even afford to pay the phone bill? They probably still have a huge financial legacy from when they were a really big union...might be wrong, happy to be corrected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mj.scuba Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Anybody know what a typical monthly subsciption to a union is nowdays? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swordfish1 Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Anybody know what a typical monthly subsciption to a union is nowdays? I pay £25 every 4 weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeX Posted February 23, 2012 Author Share Posted February 23, 2012 Anybody know what a typical monthly subsciption to a union is nowdays? its currently £11.48 per month to join Unite on the Core (basic) Full time membership. ref: http://www.unitetheunion.org/pdf/UNITE%20Memb%20Form%20A5%20leaflet%202%209628%20v3.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeX Posted February 23, 2012 Author Share Posted February 23, 2012 I pay £25 every 4 weeks. which union is that and is this a full time membership or part time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swordfish1 Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Actually, I've just checked and I was slightly wrong. It's £24.39 every month. Aslef. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANGELFIRE1 Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Well, Arthur's fine record stands proud for all to see. Even his most hated enemy's cannot argue against it. Well done Arthur, we all love you, don't we. (Number of deep mines before "the strike" 170 Miners numbers then, hundreds of thousands. Number of deep mines now 3 Miners numbers now, a few hundred). A record to be truly proud of. A case of a donkey leading Lions I'm afraid. ref Wikipedia.() Angel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whatwhat Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Scargill what an utter sell out. Stabs the very thing he destroyed in the back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeX Posted February 23, 2012 Author Share Posted February 23, 2012 Well, Arthur's fine record stands proud for all to see. Even his most hated enemy's cannot argue against it. Well done Arthur, we all love you, don't we. (Number of deep mines before "the strike" 170 Miners numbers then, hundreds of thousands. Number of deep mines now 3 Miners numbers now, a few hundred). A record to be truly proud of. A case of a donkey leading Lions I'm afraid. ref Wikipedia.() Angel. coal was cheaper to import than to mine in the uk due to the unions continued demands and threats of strike action. if they had kept the costs down there would still be a coal mining industry in the uk, but they refused and got greedy. they held the country to ransom so the democratically elected government of the time smashed them and we are better for it. now with the cost of other forms of fuel spiraling up, mining has become economically viable once more, and so there is talk of reopening some of the mines. the same is happening with precious metal mining, especially gold. in scotland they are reopening some old mines that had previously closed. things change so you cant compare now to then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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